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Show [85] ALBANY PAPERS. Containing, I. Reqfom and Motives 07: «which Me PLAN of UNION for the C o L o N I E s was formedg-II. Raw": again/Z partial Um'om g-III. fled the Plan of Union drawn éy B. F. and mm- m'moufly agreed 2‘0 5] the Comma/imam from New Hamplhire, Maflétchufctt's Bay, Rhode Illand, New Jerfey, Mary- land, mm' Penfylvania *, met in Congre/i at Albany, in July I7 54, to cozzfla'er * [The reader mull be informed here, that this plan was inbut, commiffioncrs fame of them not attending, (from caufes whichI cannot from fpecify) their confent to it was not, in this refpeé‘t, univerfally exprelTe d. Governor Pmumll, however, fays, ‘That he had an opportunity of ‘ converfing with, and knowing the fentiments of the commiflion‘ ers' ‘appointed by their refpeétive provinces, to attend this con~ gtefs, uaana...n tended for all the colonies; to which they were called by the crown;' ‘oflear ning from their experience and judgment, the aflual [late of the American bufinefs and interelt; and of hearing amongfl them, the grounds and rea{ons of that American Union, which they then had under deliberation, and tranfmitted the plan of to Eng- land:' and, he adds, in another place, ‘that the {entiments of our colonies were collected in an authentic manner on this {ubjeé‘t in the plan propofed by Dr. Frmzl/z'n, and unanimoully agreed to in congrele.' [Sec Governor Pmunall': Admimyi ratiozz of lbe Briti/b Coloniet, Vol. I. p. 13. II. p. 86. E.] Edit. 4, 1774, and Vol. 0f |